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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1828.

2. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.
(a) Art.
(b) Authors.
(c) Class.
(d) Frame.

3. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.
(a) Truth.
(b) Reality.
(c) Justice.
(d) Accidents.

4. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.
(a) Change it.
(b) Expose it.
(c) Believe in it.
(d) Understand it.

5. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?
(a) Nature.
(b) Social abjection.
(c) People.
(d) Paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.

2. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?

3. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.

4. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

5. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

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